Research Paper on Drowning Ruth
Research Paper on Drowning Ruth
Judith K. St. Ores
St. Mary’s University of Minnesota
Academic Writing – CM330A
Dr. Capper Nichols
Research Paper on Drowning Ruth
Author
Christina Schultz was born in 1962 and grew up in Wisconsin near Pewaukee Lake in the southeast part of the state. Her father’s side of the family had lived there for generations. Her parents lived in a home originally constructed as a boat-house. The boat-house where she lived with her parents was located on her great-grandfather’s summer home on Lake Pewaukee. When Christina was ten, they moved three miles away to a home her parents built on farmland purchased from Christina’s Great-Aunt (BookBrowseLLC, 2010).
The only college she applied for was Yale University, where she was accepte. If she had not been accepted to Yale, her back-up plan was to attend the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She met her husband, Benjamin Schwarz, at Yale and they were married in 1986. She spent an extra year at Yale in order to earn her Master’s degree in English, then taught 11th and 12th grade English at a private school in Washington, D.C. Her husband was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Oxford, so Christina and Benjamin moved to England. When Benjamin received a Fellowship to do graduate work at Yale they moved back to Connecticut. During this time Christina did editing jobs and completed her Master’s thesis on World War I poets. It was during this time she began writing Drowning Ruth (2000). Ben was hired by Rand Corporation located in Los Angeles, California, so the couple moved there. Christina taught 10th, 11th and 12th grade English at a private school in Los Angeles. During this time she also worked on her novel, but the demands of teaching left little time for writing. With Benjamin’s urging she quit her teaching job and worked at odd jobs , substitute teaching, tutoring and editing, which allowed her to spend time working on her novel. The couple moved to Manhattan for
Judith K. St. Ores
St. Mary’s University of Minnesota
Academic Writing – CM330A
Dr. Capper Nichols
Research Paper on Drowning Ruth
Author
Christina Schultz was born in 1962 and grew up in Wisconsin near Pewaukee Lake in the southeast part of the state. Her father’s side of the family had lived there for generations. Her parents lived in a home originally constructed as a boat-house. The boat-house where she lived with her parents was located on her great-grandfather’s summer home on Lake Pewaukee. When Christina was ten, they moved three miles away to a home her parents built on farmland purchased from Christina’s Great-Aunt (BookBrowseLLC, 2010).
The only college she applied for was Yale University, where she was accepte. If she had not been accepted to Yale, her back-up plan was to attend the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She met her husband, Benjamin Schwarz, at Yale and they were married in 1986. She spent an extra year at Yale in order to earn her Master’s degree in English, then taught 11th and 12th grade English at a private school in Washington, D.C. Her husband was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Oxford, so Christina and Benjamin moved to England. When Benjamin received a Fellowship to do graduate work at Yale they moved back to Connecticut. During this time Christina did editing jobs and completed her Master’s thesis on World War I poets. It was during this time she began writing Drowning Ruth (2000). Ben was hired by Rand Corporation located in Los Angeles, California, so the couple moved there. Christina taught 10th, 11th and 12th grade English at a private school in Los Angeles. During this time she also worked on her novel, but the demands of teaching left little time for writing. With Benjamin’s urging she quit her teaching job and worked at odd jobs , substitute teaching, tutoring and editing, which allowed her to spend time working on her novel. The couple moved to Manhattan for